Black creature lying there on the ground:
Short hair, clothes caked in dirt and despair,
Are you a woman?

Reaching up for money to live,
Most people don't have a buck to give.
Do you feel? Are you real?
Are you a woman?

Does your ebony skin glow, or has it turned off
after years of uselessness?
Can you touch me?
Are you a woman?

Real women have fancy clothes.
Real women do their hair.
Real women make men stare.
A real woman's cheeks are rose.
Are you a real woman?

Maybe if you had a job, you'd be a woman.
Replace your missing teeth with bright porcelain.
Talk like a woman talk, laugh like a woman laugh,
Get a man who tells you you're a woman.
Because are you a woman?

...Yes
Yes you are.